| Time | Track A | Track B | Track C | Fairhaven | Huxley (Hands-on) |
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| 8:40am - 9:00am | Font Management: Best practices in OS X
special 3rd party sponsored session presented by Enfocus
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| 9:00am - 10:00am | Keynote: "Where Do Babies Come From?" Meet InDesign's "Parents" at Adobe
David Blatner, Tim Cole, and the Adobe InDesign Development Team
Seattle is where InDesign was born and raised. Join us for a rare opportunity to meet the team who made our favorite page-layout tool a reality and hear what they've been working on. |
| 10:45am - 12:00pm | Essential InDesign Tips & Tricks
Anne-Marie Concepcion and Claudia McCue
Learn how to make your pages fly with the essential shortcuts and techniques that top InDesign demons use every day. Super-charging InDesign for a real-world production setting Hidden and undocumented productivity features Vital keyboard shortcuts for navigation and formatting |
| 11:00am - 11:15am | Break |
| 11:15am - 12:30pm | Type Tricks
Rufus Deuchler
Text is at the heart of much of what we produce in InDesign. Learn some of the coolest tricks for making your text really pop. Text on a path Text rules Amazing text strokes Custom underlines and strikethroughs Align to Spine Bullets and Auto-Numbering | Anchored Objects
Diane Burns
Learn how to get the most out of anchored and inline objects, arguably one of CS2's most powerful and underutilized features! Placing objects that flow with text anywhere on a spread Optimizing anchored objects with object styles Special effects | Adobe Bridge from an InDesign Perspective
Anne-Marie Concepcion
Adobe Bridge is the newest addition to the Creative Suite, and you have to know how to use it if you're going to be efficient with these programs. Managing your images, text, InDesign documents, and other assets is one of the most challenging tasks in today's fast-paced world. Why Bridge makes managing your assets a breeze Common keyboard shortcuts you just have to know The default preferences you must change for maximum efficiency | 10:00a – 12:30a
The InDesign QuickStart Class
Sandee Cohen
This fast-paced, half-day InDesign course will get you up to speed quickly and help you make InDesign really fly. Taught by internationally-known instructor and author Sandee Cohen, this is the class you need if you're new to InDesign or need to learn this rich, powerful program fast. | 10:00a – 12:30p
Flash for InDesign Users
Brian Wood
Many of us have held off learning Flash as long as possible, but now that it's an Adobe product, it's time to jump on the bandwagon and get up to speed quickly! This class covers the basics and sends you off with what you need to know to create cool Flash artwork.
Very limited seating for this hands-on class. Sign up early to guarantee your seat. |
| 12:30pm - 2:00pm | Lunch on your Own |
| 1:30pm - 2:30pm | Migration Strategies
Russell Viers and Tim Cole
We are in the midst of a sea change in this industry as thousands of companies are moving from old workflows involving QuarkXPress and PageMaker. If you're involved with an organization in transition—as an insider or a consultant—this is the class for you. What works and what doesn't How newspapers are reworking their workflows for the better How InCopy eases the pain | Blending Modes
Michael Ninness
The layer blending modes in Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign are a big mystery, right? But blending modes can be extremly useful, even in a page-layout program. If you are one of those designers that forever cycle through the different blend modes, then this session is for you. Which blending modes are the most important, and how to incorporate them into your daily workflow Instant image correction Painting with light | Automating Your Workflow with Scripts
Olav Martin Kvern
Stop using your computer like it were just another paste-up tool and start making it do some of your work for you! Remember: You don't have to know how to script in order to use scripts! Adding your own custom features to InDesign Scripts versus macros Automating your workflow and page production Where to get cool scripts and how to customize them to your workflow | Understanding INX
Branislav Milic
Most people know the InDesign Interchange Format (INX) as a way to convert CS2 documents for CS users. But INX is much, much more than that. It's a complete XML representation of your InDesign document, and it lets you manage your files in ways you haven't even yet dreamed of. Search and replace things you never expected Why snippets are the best thing since sliced bread | 2:00p – 5:30p
Acrobat & PDF Essentials
Claudia McCue
Acrobat has come a long way from the early days when Adobe was pushing the "paperless office." From preflighting press documents to optimizing your files for print and the Web, nationally-renowned trainer Claudia McCue will give you the inside scoop on every important prepress tool and feature in Adobe Acrobat 7. |
| 3:00pm - 3:10pm | Break |
| 3:10pm - 4:10pm | Text Composition
Eric Menninga and Kacey Crouch
Sit down with an Adobe engineer to discover the inside scoop on how text really composes, from letter to letter, line to line, and paragraph to paragraph. If you're into type, this is a once-in-a-lifetime chance. Optimizing the paragraph composer Inside nested styles Getting line breaks right Why InDesign sometimes acts nonintuitively | Fundamentals of Document Construction
Sandee Cohen
Take the time now to build a solid foundation for your document so you can save much more time down the road. Explore the mysteries of master pages and how you can make them work for you. Why master pages appear sometimes not to work Basing one master page on another Automating page numbering and section headers Fast and efficient text-flow | File > Print (Deep Dive)
Steve Werner
No matter how hard you work on your design, it doesn't count if it doesn't print. Join us for a deep dive into InDesign's print dialog box to learn its secrets and learn what you (and your output provider) need to know about this powerhouse. Managing transparency Drivers: The unknown variable What really happens to image data? How hidden PPDs alter the equation | | |
| 4:10pm - 4:20pm | Break |
| 4:20pm - 5:20pm | Mac OS X and InDesign
Branislav Milic
While InDesign works almost identically on both Mac OS and Windows, the Mac OS itself offers a number of great features that are especially useful for InDesign users. Windows users are also invited, to see what you may be missing. ColorSync and ColorSync Utility to preview and compare ICC profiles Hidden tricks to manage files and move them between applications (including Bridge) Hidden features with Application Fast Switching Find a needle in a haystack using the most powerful search engine on the market : Spotlight Metadata and Smart Folders Transparent screen captures Sharing files with iChat and Bonjour The power of native Mac OS X PDF technology Automate like never before with super robot Automator Solve Mac OS X and InDesign shortcuts conflicts. | Images: In and Out
Peter Truskier
If you don't understand how InDesign handles images, you're going to end up banging your head against a wall. Stop the pain and learn it here. When you should use PSD instead of PDF, TIFF instead of EPS Editing and creating (and avoiding) clipping paths Tricks for picture linking and the Links palette Exporting JPEG and EPS images Linking versus embedding images | InDesign for Newspapers
Russell Viers and Tim Cole
Newspapers large and small across the globe are adopting InDesign (and often InCopy). Explore why and—more importantly—how these newspapers are doing it. Best practices Working with integrators Custom plug-ins you should think about InDesign for editorial vs. ad layout | So You Want to Work With (or be) a Plug-in Developer
Mark Niemann-Ross
Most people don’t realize that InDesign is made up almost entirely of plug-ins, so virtually anything in the program can be customized. There are hundreds of plug-in developers around the world, many of whom do custom work. How to find the SDK for free Custom plug-in developers can do your bidding Getting developer support from Adobe | |
| Time | Track A | Track B | Track C | Fairhaven | Huxley (Hands-on) |
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| 8:30am - 9:00am | Font Management: Best practices in OS X
special 3rd party sponsored session presented by Extensis
Take control of your fonts! This session will examine the unique requirements required of a creative typography workflow. The use of thousands of fonts in a creative workgroup presents challenges to the creation of a flexible yet controlled computing environment. This session will explore these challenges, present proven workflow solutions and demonstrate them. |
| 9:00am - 10:00am | XML Fundamentals
Olav Martin Kvern and David Blatner
XML promises to bring a revolution to publishing, and InDesign is on the cutting edge. But what is XML? How can you use it in InDesign? This session answers these questions and more! How to import and export XML Using XML as a template for repurposing your documents The important link between styles and XML tags |
| 10:00am - 10:10am | Break |
| 10:10am - 11:00am | Styles on Steroids
Sandee Cohen
Explore dozens of tips and techniques for getting the most out of your character, paragraph, and object styles. This session is a must for seasoned production artists who need to boost their productivity. Power searches with style sheets Automating run-in heads and formatted drop caps with nested styles Format an entire story with dozens of styles with a single click Object styles: The secret efficiency weapon | Color Management Fundamentals
David Blatner
The color on screen doesn't match the color in print? The color in Photoshop doesn't match the color in InDesign? You need color management! Learn the basics in this fast-paced tutorial on one of the most important features in desktop publishing. Getting colors to match across all your Creative Suite programs Softproofing: Trusting what you see on screen The 5 most important rules of color management in InDesign | XML Deep Dive
Peter Truskier
Want to take XML to a deeper level? Sit down with the masters and get your hands dirty with tags. Bring your questions! Learn how XSLT can help you modify your XML. Discover special attributes for handling tables and styles What's new with InDesign's XML features And more! | 9:00a – 12:30p
InCopy, Part 1
Anne-Marie Concepcion
Designers, bring your editors and production managers! Join Anne-Marie Concepción, expert InDesign/InCopy trainer and consultant, as she reveals how surprisingly easy it is to set up and use Adobe's ingenious solution for collaborative editorial/art workflows, dramatically streamlining the production process. The morning tutorial offers comprehensive InCopy training to get your editorial group up and running. They'll learn how to copyfit to the live layout using the same power tools found in InDesign, with cool editing tools found only in InCopy. | 9:00a – 12:30p
It's Time to Learn DreamWeaver
Brian Wood
While Adobe has been pushing GoLive for years, if you want to make professional Web sites, you owe it to yourself to at least learn the basics of Dreamweaver. This powerhouse program offers some extraordinary features that make HTML authoring a snap. *Very limited seating for this hands-on class. Sign up early to guarantee your seat. |
| 11:00am - 11:15am | Break |
| 11:15am - 12:30pm | Cool (and often free) Extra Resources You Should Know About
Kacey Crouch
Creative juices not flowing? Want to push a button and have your document designed for you? Well, it may no be that easy—but close! In this session learn where all of Adobe hides the extra goodies in the Creative Suite. Use templates in InDesign and Illustrator Scripts, plug-ins, clip art, what hidden resources in the other CS2 applications See what is to be found on the extra CDs and the Web | Color Management Deep Dive
Matt Phillips, David Blatner
This is a must-see session for anyone who wants to master InDesign's color management! Details of what is (and isn't!) color managed Best practices for embedding profiles Why synchronizing with the Suite may not be the best solution for you | XML Workflow
Peter Truskier
After you understand how to import and export XML with InDesign, it's time for the most important lesson of all: How to actually put it into practice! Learn from real world examples of workflows based on InDesign's XML capabilities. Using XML utilities to manage your code | | |
| 12:30pm - 2:00pm | Lunch on your Own |
| 1:30pm - 2:30pm | The Sweet Suite, Part 1
David Blatner
You can call it "PhInDeStratorshop," but we call it the creative suite of products that we rely on every day. How well you make Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign work together can make or break your job (and your bottom line). Why Photoshop and Illustrator are the ultimate InDesign "plug-ins" Moving vector objects from one application to another Smart Objects | Exporting PDF for Print
Claudia McCue
If you're not using PDF as the basis of your workflow, you're not being efficient. Period. But using PDF doesn't mean you're getting the most out of PDF. Learn the secrets of the PDF masters in this intense tips, tricks, and techniques session. Why PDF is the "new EPS" Getting great PDFs out of InDesign Watching out for the "gotchas" What you should not trust to PDF | Publishing Data
Rufus Deuchler
Data—whether it comes from a spreadsheet or a database—can be a hassle to format, layout, and publish. Come learn the tricks of the data-publishing masters! Catalog plug-ins and workflows Building directories DataMerge: more powerful than you think Customized variable data publishing solutions | 2:00p – 4:00p
InCopy, Part 2
Anne-Marie Concepcion
The afternoon InCopy tutorial expands upon the morning's session, discussing the live InCopy/InDesign workflow, with plenty of examples for designers and editors alike. Anne-Marie will discuss essential set-up steps, cross-platform considerations and optional third-party plugins, always filtered through her real-world experience of helping other companies like yours make the move successfully. | 2:00p – 5:30p
Write Your First InDesign JavaScript
Dave Saunders
Scripting offers you control over InDesign in astonishing ways, but at the cost of learning how to program. Fortunately, it's not nearly as hard as you think! You just need to understand the rules. Understanding InDesign's scripting model Writing your first really useful script Deciphering the ExtendScript ToolKit (ESTK) Resources and how to use them *Very limited seating for this hands-on class. Sign up early to guarantee your seat. |
| 3:00pm - 3:10pm | Break |
| 3:10pm - 4:10pm | Text Flow
Douglas Waterfall
Placing a word or a paragraph on a page is one thing, but flowing multiple columns and pages is something else. Find out how InDesign really handles text flow from behind the scenes, including text wrap, tables, footnotes, anchored objects, and more. Not for the faint of heart! | InDesign for Output Providers
Steve Werner and Claudia McCue
InDesign poses special challenges to output providers, such as how to best handle transparency and color management. Whether you're an output provider or you have to work with output providers, this session is a must. | InDesign Server and Other Automation
Chris Kitchner
Dreading that weekly ad for the local car dealership? What if your customer could choose graphics via a Web portal and the ad was produced automatically based on a template you've designed? Join us for an overview of InDesign Server, scripts, and third-party tools that take raw materials and build documents for you. Variable data printing Eight copies of InDesign running simultaneously on one computer | | |
| 4:10pm - 4:20pm | Break |
| 4:20pm - 5:20pm | Books, Table of Contents, and Indexing
Brian Wood
Whether you are building a magazine, a catalog, or a book, it's essential that you master InDesign's long document features. The Book file and its amazing features Auto-numbering and auto-pagination Sections: how and when to use them Controlling page numbering, styles, and colors across multiple files Tables of contents and indexing | InDesign and World Languages
Diane Burns
InDesign makes multi-lingual publishing easy. This session will present a brief overview of the basics, and then focus on publishing in languages that use non-Roman characters sets. Open Type fonts, what they can and cannot do Typesetting in Japanese, Chinese and Korean Handling right-to-left (Hebrew and Arabic) and vertical (Japanese) composition Sharing multilingual files with others | Live InDesignSecrets Podcast
David Blatner and Anne-Marie Concepción
Come rollick and roll with the co-hosts of the InDesignSecrets podcast while they explore hot tips and cool techniques. Bring your questions and be a part of this live recording of the world's most popular InDesign podcast. | | |
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| 9:00am - 10:00am | InDesign CS3 and CS2 Tips & Tricks
David Blatner and Deke McClelland
Adobe has let loose a few tantalizing tidbits of information about InDesign CS3, including that it will be released in the second quarter of 2007. We'll explore what we know about CS3 and what it means for InDesign users everwhere. Plus, we'll throw in a bunch of our favorite tips and techniques and answer questions from the audience.
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| 10:45am - 12:00pm | Managing Your InDesign Assets
Brian Wood
InDesign is a excellent tool for bringing together assets such as text and graphics. Learn the best way to manage those assets! Libraries Snippets Bridge and other asset management utilities Packaging assets | Interactive PDF, Part 1
Sandee Cohen
Join Sandee as she demystifies InDesign's confusing interface for making hyperlinks, bookmarks, and other essentials elements for interactive PDF files. Accessiblity: It's the law! Making your table of contents clickable Using hyperlinks and bookmarks for navigation inside InDesign | Transparency and Flattening Deep Dive
Matt Phillips
Transparency is one of InDesign's strongest and most important features, but too few people understand how transparency is flattened for PostScript and PDF 1.3 output. This is a rare opportunity to sit down with one of Adobe's core transparency engineers for an advanced transparency session! Understanding atomic regions When rasterization occurs How to avoid stitching and other artifacts Benefits of the PDF Print Engine | Workflow Systems
David Cohen and Chris Kitchener
Version Cue may be appropriate for small workgroups, but this session looks at the bigger picture: How to manage a lot of content handled by a lot of people. Replacing QPS Exploring systems such as SoftCare K4 and K2, Woodwing Smart Connection, Van Gennep PlanSystems3, anygraaf Doris32 | 10:00a–12:30p
Version Cue: Hands On
Steve Werner
One of the saddest questions we hear is: Do you know where I can learn more about Version Cue? Well, now there's finally a good answer: Here! Join author and consultant Steve Werner as he walks you through setting up a Version Cue workflow and using it efficiently. *Very limited seating for this hands-on class. Sign up early to guarantee your seat. |
| 11:00am - 11:15am | Break |
| 11:15am - 12:30pm | Repurposing: Print & Web Workflow
Anne-Marie Concepcion
We used to hear the question: Yeah, but will it print? Now everyone wonders, yeah, but how do we put it on the Web? Get the low-down on how to repurpose your content for a dual Print and Web workflow. Building ads and banners in InDesign How Package for GoLive works (and why it often doesn't) Perfect Web PDFs Preparing text for Dreamweaver or GoLive | Interactive PDF, Part 2
Sandee Cohen
InDesign is quickly becoming the world's best tool for building "rich media" PDF files, full of audio, video, Flash, and hyperlinked buttons. Learn how to build interactive PDF files and what pitfalls might await you. Supercool rollovers Using transparency effects to your advantage Dual-purpose files that play and print! | The Sweet Suite, Part 2
David Blatner
Come join David as he goes deeper, uncovering how the Creative Suite applications comingle with InDesign! Why InDesign is a better photo-compositing tool than Photoshop Metadata:The secret glue behind productive workflows How Bridge can help maximize your efficiency | Footnotes
Should you be using the automatic footnote features in CS2? Or should you find other methods? It all depends on your workflow and page design. Come learn about the hidden advantages of footnotes, as well as common pitfalls. Importing from Word Key workarounds for limitations and bugs Straddling columns | |
| 12:30pm - 2:00pm | Lunch on your Own |
| 1:30pm - 2:30pm | The Future of InDesign: An Open Discussion with the Adobe Development Team
The Adobe Team
Here's your chance to hear it from the source! Sit down with Adobe's product development team and find out what the future will bring. Then talk back and know that the right people are listening. Adobe's page-layout philosophy: Why are we here and where are we going? What features do you wish InDesign had? Vote on features you want changed in future versions of InDesign. | Go Deep with Fonts and Typography
Thomas Phinney and Rufus Deuchler
Sit down with one of Adobe's top type experts to pick apart InDesign's font handling. Grokking glyphs GID vs. Unicode numbers The good and bad of automatic font activation Font families exposed Adobe's hidden font management system | Tables
Diane Burns
Aren't you glad you don't have to make tables out of lines and boxes anymore? InDesign's elegant table-creation tools allow you to easily create great-looking tables without pulling your hair out (or someone else's). Importing Word and Excel tables InDesign's new automatic header row feature Table tips and shortcuts Making tables that don't even look like tables | Scripting Deep Dive
Olav Martin Kvern
Okay, you understand what scripting does and how to write basic scripts. Now it's time to go deep with Adobe's scripting guru in a no-questions-barred Q&A session that promises to delve into the good, bad, and downright messy aspects of scripting InDesign. | 2:00p – 5:30p
Illustrator for InDesign Users
Sandee Cohen
If you're one of the many people who own Illustrator but hardly scratch the surface of what it can do, this is the class for you. Let Sandee give you the low-down on this extraordinary program, including building 3D effects, managing transparency, tracing bitmaps, and more! |
| 3:00pm - 3:10pm | Break |
| 3:10pm - 4:10pm | Tips! Tips! Tips!
Ensemble
The show's not over 'til the last tips sings! Join the presenters as they bring everything and the kitchen sink in an end-of-show, all-out tip frenzy. |
